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91.
by patchtopic 4y ago
obligatory Young Ones reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEITpehWiXk
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by patchtopic 4y ago
I bet there was a fraction of this wasteful paperwork for that place in Thailand where I got laid up with food poisoning for weeks.
93.
by patchtopic 4y ago
I read lots of (genre) fiction books but never heard of this guy before today, or any of his books.
94.
by patchtopic 4y ago
there is an alternative, speaking as someone who purchases piles of music in lossless format from bandcamp and similar sites, from musicians who could not five a f*ck about tiktok or other lame surveillance capitalism platforms.
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by patchtopic 4y ago
old Melbourne saying: "Is it the truth, or did you read it in the Herald Sun?".. like any Murdoch rag it sometimes might put out a news article to keep up appearances, but there is usually a better source..
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by patchtopic 4y ago
the source blog looks even sketchier than Risa Hoshino
97.
by patchtopic 4y ago
a long time ago an organisation I worked for purchased a google search appliance (and actual bit of rack hardware) and I was tasked with setting it up. the inherit limits in this bit of junk made it almost useless, I expended a lot of effor
98.
by patchtopic 4y ago
you should compare notes with Anna Politkovskaya about this
99.
by patchtopic 5y ago
so when/if bandcamp jumps the shark, hopefully there will be a similar music site to jump to.
100.
by patchtopic 5y ago
this is most unfortunate, but not having alternate copies outside of a capricious, free service like youtube was the first mistake.
101.
by patchtopic 5y ago
how does the "provably secure" operating system co-exist in a legislative environment in Australia where software products are required to have govt (and therefore anyone) accessible backdoors?
102.
by patchtopic 5y ago
from the wire.com pricing page, it costs $$$ for more than 5 users, I assume that means connecting to their servers. Does that mean if a group of friends used the wire service for IM they have to pay to join a group chat of more than 5 user
103.
by patchtopic 5y ago
I know just getting rid of facebook doesn't solve this issue as youtube, etc also suffer from it - but it is a good start.
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by patchtopic 5y ago
This has occasionally been mentioned elsewhere about some of the sketchier exchanges. I have never seen it mentioned with any of the exchanges I use - is there any non-anecdotal confirmation of this phenomena?
105.
by patchtopic 5y ago
I use it a bit for buying stuff (hosting, VPNs, domains, SSL certs and other stuff when I can).. but litecoin is actually more useful for this as less volatile, faster transactions and lower fees.
106.
by patchtopic 5y ago
we moved from OpenVPN AS to PRITUNL and so far it has been good. It has a few annoying quirks, but generally happy with it. Stability and reliability very good so far. The documentation is frustratingly terse in places and does not clearly
107.
by patchtopic 5y ago
AFAIK the email alert feature is not enabled by default in fail2ban. Is there any chance a default config of fail2ban in a typical Linux distribution would be vulnerable to this?
108.
by patchtopic 5y ago
thanks for nothing incompetent Thai gov! - someone who has been to Thailand frequently pre covid.
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by patchtopic 5y ago
hunt for any youtube cryptocurrency content and instantly get your youtube feed filled with a torrent of garbage containing thumbnails of graphs and amazed facial expressions..
110.
by patchtopic 5y ago
"crash" not very accurate choice of words... exchange rate dip maybe better?
111.
by patchtopic 5y ago
the signup confirmation email for BooKWyrm seems to have stopped working.
112.
by patchtopic 5y ago
I am disgusted by the mostly apathetic response in Australia to this terrible legislation.
113.
by patchtopic 5y ago
As an Australian I am disgusted by these clowns who are in government.
114.
by patchtopic 5y ago
as an unemployed computer science graduate when this came out this CPU was a big deal to me. I had just finished a subject on MINIX and had read Linus original Linux post,and getting a cheap 386sx mobo allowed me to get into Linux for relat
115.
by patchtopic 5y ago
they are trying to catch up: https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3143180/china-hatch...
116.
by patchtopic 5y ago
probably banned in Thailand but a great background: https://secretsiam.news/p/the-palace-and-the-pandemic
117.
by patchtopic 5y ago
not to be confused with Intel's Clear Linux :-) https://clearlinux.org/ except when it is..
118.
by patchtopic 5y ago
perhaps because it is the name of the style of Thai chili sauce he is making, named after the Thai town.
119.
by patchtopic 5y ago
the first Linux was written on Minix and used the Minix filesystem and GCC that was available on minix. So built on an established software stack and kernel.
120.
by patchtopic 5y ago
available for 2 weeks.. I installed it on a VM for a quick look and promising so far.

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